Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: rectify radix-tree testing entry in XARRAY

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sat Feb 01 2020 - 18:36:43 EST


On Sat, 2020-02-01 at 22:35 +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
>
> On Sat, 1 Feb 2020, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
>
> > The initial commit 3d5bd6e1a04a ("xarray: Add MAINTAINERS entry")
> > missed a trailing slash to include all files and subdirectory files.
> > Hence, all files in tools/testing/radix-tree were not part of XARRAY,
> > but were considered to be part of "THE REST".
> >
> > Rectify this to ensure patches reach the actual maintainer.
> >
> > This was identified with a small script that finds all files only
> > belonging to "THE REST" according to the current MAINTAINERS file, and I
> > acted upon its output.
> >
> > Fixes: 3d5bd6e1a04a ("xarray: Add MAINTAINERS entry")
> > Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Matthew, please pick this small fixup patch.
> >
> > applies cleanly on current master and next-20200131
> >
>
> Matthew, Joe Perches just informed me that get_maintainers.pl is smart
> enough to handle the case below and does not strictly need a further
> trailing slash.
>
> Please ignore this patch; the commit message is actually wrong.

While the commit message may be inexact,
I think the actual change is good and
could/should still be applied.

The "Fixes:" tag is unnecessary though.